Последние приготовления

Китайский рабочий поднимается на Олимпийскую скульптуру, которая находится над входом в одну из арен, специально построенных для проведения летних олимпийских игр в Пекине. В 17-миллионном городе идут последние приготовления.

A Chinese migrant construction worker climbs an Olympic sculpture that is being built to showcase the Olympic games in Tiananmen Square in Beijing on July 22, 2008. The last-minute makeover for the city of 17 million people has included a crackdown on its huge vice industry, a shutdown of work at construction sites, and measures to curb Beijing's notoriously foul air. The clean-up now also includes the rough-hewn migrants from China's vast countryside whose hard work in often dangerous conditions and for low pay has helped fuel Beijing's growth and built Olympic venues. The number of migrants in the city topped five million at the end of last year, or nearly one in three people in the capital.